Vietnam - Day 1

Today, I went to Changi airport at 12.15pm. We took a taxi. There's a long story behind it but I'll skip that. Can ask me if you want to know. After that, we reached the airport and had some food before boarding the plane. I ate an Apple Turnover.

Our plane was MI633 (silkair). It stopped at Seam Reap, Cambodia, before going to Danang, Vietnam. I get depressed while thinking about the ride. I was so hard working as to do A Math homework on the plane. After doing about half the heymath benchmark test 2, I got so sleepy that I chucked the paper and my whole supply of foolscap paper in the front pocket and fell asleep till we landed in Seam Reap. While stopping over, the air stewards made an announcement, something about taking everything with you, then coming back with everything in half an hour while they cleaned up the plane. The sleepy-headed me just walked straight out of the plane without taking the things from the front pocket. Of course, I didn't realise until I got back into the plane and heard someone mention about the plane being cleaned up. I got a shock and checked my bag in vain for the precious papers. And you know the rest of the story.

On the bright side, I still have The Kite Runner to read. I'm still wondering how I will ever finish it. I brought the english comprehension paper and E Math heymath test 2. Sadly, I am out of paper supply. This is so depressing. How am I going to accomplish my work? Gah.

Danang airport is super tiny. It can be separated into 3 classrooms (columns). The first is for passengers coming into the airport to board a plane. The second is a small baggage wheel to pick up the luggages. The third is another tiny room for passengers waiting to get out of the airport, into Vietnam.

When we got out, a guy from the hotel drove us back. It was this drive that gave me the first good impression of this hotel. He served cold towels and a drink. When we reached the hotel, we were served a welcome drink and a cold towel. After I met Jie Ying online, I went for dinner in the hotel. It was what I call "fine dining". They served us cold towels again and 2 nice tiny loafs of bread. It was delicious. I think I have cleaned myself with a cold towel 3 times already within the past 2 hours.

I'm staying at Palm Garden Resort. It's 30km from Danang airport. But it's actually in Hoi An, not Danang. There is free internet service, from 6.30am to 10pm (vietnam time, 1 hour back from Singapore), which is what I'm using now and a whole load of free sports facilities like cycling, tennis, table tannis, snooker etc. I can't wait to try them out tomorrow. I think we'll be out at the beach and mostly exercising. So tiring...

I am dreading Wednesday. According to weather forecasters, temperaturs could go to 35 degrees celcius. I wonder how I'll look like at the end of this trip. But so far, I'm enjoying.

I have some photos but I'll probably only add some tomorrow. My dad hasn't loaded it out from his camera yet. I am going to go back to my room now. I'm sharing a room with my sister. My parents are staying in another. This is the first time they're doing this. This is the first night. Kind of weird. Independence.. That's all for today. My shoulder is aching from the typing.

(Jie Ying, on wednesday, help me revise with violin 1s what we did for blue danube today, waltz one. It's bars 48-52, get intonation right, shift confidently. Clear rests throughout whole song, and middle of second page, remember the G# and C sharp. Oh ya, and from bars 52 to key change, there is a change of fingering. Use third position all the way after coming back from 5th. That's all. Thanks for your help. Sorry I'm ditching you for so long...)